independent. we have seen huge acceleration of these kind of operations with russia, both with air operations, submarine operations, and surface ship operations against nato countries, including the united states. lea: i want to know how concerned you are about russia and increasing its bluewater operations as you mentioned. russia sealed the deal with syria to make the base permanent, which makes they took crimea with the purpose of having a warm water port. we are seeing more of these bluewater operations. i concerned about what russia is doing with naval power? i am concerned about appeared obviously, when mayor pruden has decided to go back to the cold war activity of the old soviet navy my big concern, not necessarily what the russians are doing, but what the united states is not doing. in the face of these kind of
that s an active concern. even the secretary general of nato doesn t believe moscow s claim it s only sending 13,000 troops. we have every reason to believe that it may be substantially more troops participating than the official reported numbers. it s a russian move that can t be ignored, experts say. there has to be a strategy. what will we do? what will we put up with? that s just one crisis for the west wing that new white house chief of staff john kelly is now running. in north korea, the u.s. continues to say it s not looking for regime change. we are not your enemy. we are not your threat. but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond. but after two intercontinental ballistic missile launches and growing north korean submarine operations, u.s. satellites, aircraft and submarines are
threat to us. and we have to respond. reporter: but after two intercontinental ballistic missile launches and growing north korean submarine operations, u.s. satellite, aircraft and submarines are grabbing every snippet of imagery, electronic intercepts and radar readings. it could all help the u.s. get a vital heads up. military actions in north korea have been ramped up. they are aimed at rapid response if there is an imminent threat of a north korean missile attack or use of a nuclear device. the pentagon is adamant about making diplomacy work. but a key senate republican hawk says he was told by president trump conflict is always a possibility. he has told me that, i believe him. i m saying it s inevitable unless north korea changes. if there is going to be a war to stop him, it will be over there. reporter: earlier today, secretary of state rex tillerson
microwave communications, these places have technical intelligence teams all the time. we don t have deep level intelligence collection like the way the russians certainly have had for decades in the united states. but we kept our eye on them. what did the u.s. government have to gain by keeping these compounds open, by allowing them to operate? well, that s the best part is that u.s. intelligence monitors their intelligence collection. so we would know or have a pretty good idea just how sophisticated they were, and also what kind of targets that they would be going after. so if they suddenly shifted their collection from, you know, regular submarine operations out of connecticut to wall street, that is an indicator of how of what their strategic is it counterproductive to shut them down if this is a way ofhe u.s. spying on russia per se? now, to a certain extent, they may the president may have made a cost benefit analysis where you determine,